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Cucumis (old Latin name). Cucurbitaceae. Tendril-bearing soft tender herbs, some of which are grown for their edible fruits.
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Annual or perennial- rooted (the common cult. species annual), with large alternate entire or palmately lobed or dissected Lvs.: monoecious (rarely dioecious); sterile fls. in clusters, not lone-stalked, the fertile ones solitary and mostly short-stalked in the axils; corolla of 5 deep acute lobes; stamens not united; stigmas 3, obtuse: tendrils simple: fr. a pepo, mostly 3-celled, usually indehiscent, fleshy or thick, globular, oblong or cylindrical, sometimes echinate, many-seeded.— About 30 species of villous or spinescent climbers and trailers with annual sts., in warm parts of the globe, most abundant in Afr. Monogr. by Cogniaux, DC. Monogr. Phaner. 3. See, also, Naudin, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) IV. 11:9; 12:108.
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Read about Cucumis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Cucumis (old Latin name). Cucurbitaceae. Tendril-bearing soft tender herbs, some of which are grown for their edible fruits.

Annual or perennial- rooted (the common cult. species annual), with large alternate entire or palmately lobed or dissected Lvs.: monoecious (rarely dioecious); sterile fls. in clusters, not lone-stalked, the fertile ones solitary and mostly short-stalked in the axils; corolla of 5 deep acute lobes; stamens not united; stigmas 3, obtuse: tendrils simple: fr. a pepo, mostly 3-celled, usually indehiscent, fleshy or thick, globular, oblong or cylindrical, sometimes echinate, many-seeded.— About 30 species of villous or spinescent climbers and trailers with annual sts., in warm parts of the globe, most abundant in Afr. Monogr. by Cogniaux, DC. Monogr. Phaner. 3. See, also, Naudin, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) IV. 11:9; 12:108.


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Cucumis
melon
melon
Plant Info
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Cucumis
L.

Species
* Cucumis anguria

Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the Cucurbitaceae family which includes the cucumber, true melons, the horned melon, and Cucumis anguria, the West Indian gherkin.

See also

References

  • Ghebretinsae, A. G., Thulin, M. & Barber, J. C. (2007). Relationships of cucumbers and melons unraveled: molecular phylogenetics of Cucumis and related genera (Benincaseae, Cucurbitaceae). American Journal of Botany 94(7): 1256–1266.
  • Renner, S. S., Schaefer, H. & Kocyan, A. (2007). "Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade far from melon (C. melo)". BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 58-69. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-58. 

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